Shadowgate

The figure leaps and spurs, casting a blackened veil over the room. Gripping the torch steady in your hand, your legs begin to tremble.

With a ghastly cry, the specter surges around you. Torch outstretched in your grasp, you whirl about in a cosmic display.

A shattering shriek vibrates your skull. The torch clatters to the mossy floor as you clutch your head in agony. Bracing yourself, you observe in fascinated horror as the armless figure screeches through a non-existent throat. Cerulean infernos rise in chaos from the enclosure. The outstretched apparition moans with translucent woe before dispersing with a savage gale.

Thrown against the fleshy wall, your torch blows out, and darkness blankets your senses.

In a blind panic, you shutter to a stop as an ember ignites the chamber with a chilling blue aura. The flame cackles on itself, as you watch steadily from the far end of the room.

Mind racing, you withdraw a torch from your belt and cautiously approach the transparent beacon sizzling at the center of the mossy-red floor. As you reach full body length towards the dancing flame, you balance the torch on the edge of your hand.

A flash of azure fills the flesh-bound hollow. Through squinting eyes, you are taken back by the sapphire blaze flickering at your fingertips. Stepping back, you swallow as the firestorm once centered before you, is indeed, missing.

Casting swift gazes from the cobalt blaze, to the door, back to the blaze, your heart swells. Drowning your pride, you demonstrate cautious steps towards the wooden door, illuminating your path with indigo light.

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